Oh wait...laws are only for the little guys.

I would love it if they would ban these behemoths from the parkways. Having to drive the Hutch every morning for work I can't tell you how many of these pork beasts show up after the Labor Day weekend when school starts back up. It's a veritable parade of parents on cell phones not paying attention and clogging up the lanes.

It'd cut down the volume at least 25%

So I looked up the applicable NYC laws regarding this issue in the NYC Traffic Rules:

Section 4-15 (b)(13):
"Weight and height restrictions on bridges, viaducts and other structures. No person shall operate or move a vehicle or combination of
vehicles over, on or through any bridge, viaduct or other structures on any highway if the weight of such vehicle or combination of vehicles and load is greater than the posted capacity of the structure or exceeds the height of the posted clearance as shown by an official sign or other marking or device."

Section 4-15 (c):
"Enforcement, measurement and weight of vehicles. Any law enforcement officer or any inspector of the Department of Consumer Affairs of the City of New York having reason to believe that any vehicle or load is in violation of the restrictions in subdivision(b), above, is authorized to stop the vehicle on any public highway or private
street open to public motor vehicle traffic and measure and weigh it by means of portable or stationary measures and scales. Any law enforcement officer or such inspector may require that the vehicle be driven to the nearest scales, if they are within 3 miles."

So, if the cops have "reason to believe" that the truck is in violation, they can make them drive up to 3 miles away to get them weighed if they don't happen to have a portable scale.

Anybody know where the nearest weigh station to the Brooklyn Bridge is?

Interestingly enough, if we are just talking about gross weight here, and not curb weight, it looks as if sub-section (h) bans Hummer H2s (with a gross weight of 8600 lbs) from the FDR Drive from 23rd to 63rd Street:

Section 4-14 (h):
"Vehicular Weights on F.D.R. Drive. No person shall operate or cause to be operated any vehicle in excess of 8000 lbs. (4 tons), including the weight of passengers and cargo, on the F.D.R. Drive northbound from 23rd Street to 63rd Street and the F.D.R. Drive southbound from 63rd Street to 23rd Street. These vehicles include, but shall not be limited to trucks, vans, government-owned vehicles, stretch limousines and buses. Buses with Department of Transportation permits will be permitted northbound until 42nd Street and southbound until 96th Street. For the purposes of enforcement, signs need not be posted for this rule to be in effect."

NYC Traffic rules can be found here:
http://home2.nyc.gov/html/dot/pdf/trafrule.pdf

How about the fact that SUVs are EXEMPT from EPA gas mileage requirements because they are classified as TRUCKS yet you see them every day cruising up and down highways with restrictions against TRUCKS such as the Merritt Parkway and the Hutchinson River Parkway and the rest of the Robert Moses "parkway" system.

They should be banned from those too.

That'd be real funny.

Among the lawbreakers in California is the Governor.

See this from the article. I argue it shouldn't be a double standard:

"However, those who take the federal and state tax breaks for their heavy SUVs are happy to accept the GVWR as their vehicle's official weight. After all, they must be over 6K to get the write-off. Yet now they're arguing that the actual weight of the vehicle as it rides along California streets may be slightly under 6K. Since the weight at any given time could depend on how many bags of groceries are in the back, and very few residential streets have their own scales, we will never know. (Of course, this isn't an issue for the Hummer and some other vehicles, which break the 6K barrier by any measure.)

In other words, owners say their SUVs are over 6K when it benefits them and under 6K when it burdens them.

Here's my solution: Pick a number and stick with it. If owners of heavy SUVs prefer to use the lower curb weight, fine with me. I won't squawk about them cruising down streets with 6K limits, as long as the feds make them ineligible for 6K tax breaks. But if they want to hold onto their write-offs, and the ability to claim them using the GVWR, they shouldn't turn around and argue the GVWR doesn't apply in other governmental contexts as well."